THE SWAPPER FILE IN WARP

DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS

    The swapper file is larger in WARP than in previous releases of
    OS2.

SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION

    This is normal.

DETAILS OF RESOLUTION

    This is normal.
    The most significant change that has been made is how system DLL's
    get loaded and what is now valid data for swapping.
    System DLL's include:
    DISPLAY          SOM          PMMERGE      PMWP
    DOSCALL1         PMATM        PMMLE
    IBMDEV32         PMCTLS       PMSPL
    IBMVGA32         PMGPI        PMVIOP

    In the previous versions of OS/2, dll code was never copied to the
    swapper file.  In WARP, code for system dll's can be written to
    the swapper file and, in adition, during boot, PMMERGE, DOSCALL1,
    PMGPI, PMWP and PMVIOP will be swapped out.  This means that there
    will be an overall increase in swapper size.  This was done
    to increase overall system perfomance.

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